U.S gov timeline HJ2

  • Jamestown's house of burgesses

    Jamestown's house of burgesses
    he first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
  • mayflower compact

    mayflower compact
    a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England.
  • magna carta

    magna carta
    moved from rule of man to rule of law
    outlined individual rights which king could not violate
  • petition of right

    petition of right
    monarchs to obtain parliamentary approval before new taxes
    gov could not unlawfully imprison people
  • english bill of rights

    english bill of rights
    free speech and protection from punishment
    Glorious revolution
  • Boston Tea party

    Boston Tea party
    To protest British Parliament's tax on tea. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly.
  • declaration of independence

    declaration of independence
    The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain.
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America.
  • Fist ever U.S president

    Fist ever U.S president
    George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
  • Naturalization Act

    Naturalization Act
    limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants—in effect, to people from Western Europe—who had resided in the U.S. at least two years and their children under 21 years of age. It also granted citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizens.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion
    farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis.
  • First Bank of the US

    First Bank of the US
    Congress established the First Bank of the United States, headquartered in Philadelphia, in 1791, at the urging of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.
  • 11th amendment

    11th amendment
    prohibits federal courts from hearing cases in which a state is sued by an individual from another state or another country.
  • Louisiana purchase

    Louisiana purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
  • Marbury v. Madison

     Marbury v. Madison
    Established the principle of judicial review.
  • 12th amendment

    12th amendment
    each elector must cast distinct votes for president and vice president, instead of two votes for president.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans
    Civil War was a turning point in the war, which precipitated the capture of the Mississippi River. Having fought past Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the Union was unopposed in its capture of the city itself.
  • McCullough v. Maryland

    McCullough v. Maryland
    Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine
    the United States would not intervene in European affairs, but likewise it would not tolerate further European colonization in the Americas or European interference in the governments of the American hemisphere.
  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War
    What was the Mexican-American War most known for?
    In the fighting that followed, the mostly-volunteer United States military secured control of Mexico after a series of battles, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on. It was the first large-scale success of a United States military force on foreign soil.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  • freedmen's bureau

    freedmen's bureau
    provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    abolished slavery in the United States.
  • Ab Lincoln assasination

    Ab Lincoln assasination
    The day president Lincoln was killed.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    granted African American men the right to vote.
  • James Garfield assassination

    James Garfield assassination
    The day President James Garfield was killed
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
  • William McKinley assassination

    William McKinley assassination
    the day president William McKinley was killed
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment
    grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population.
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment
    modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
  • America joins WW1

    America joins WW1
    America joins the conflict of war because Germany sank many American merchant ships
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    granted women the right to vote
  • 20th amendment

    20th amendment
    It changed the original calendar dates for the president and vice president's terms from March 4 to January 20.
  • Stock market crash of 1929

    Stock market crash of 1929
    the long period of speculation that preceded it, during which millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels.
  • great depression

    great depression
    The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
  • 21st amendment

    21st amendment
    grants the States virtually complete control over whether to permit importation or sale of liquor and how to structure the liquor distribution system.
  • America enters WW2

    America enters WW2
    Japanese carrier planes attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor knocking out over 200 planes and sinking or damaging eight battleships. The following day, Congress declared war on Imperial Japan.
  • America drops atomic bomb

    America drops atomic bomb
    The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima becoming the only country to ever use nuclear weapons.
  • United Nations Created

    United Nations Created
    Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars.
  • U.S Air force was created

    U.S Air force was created
  • 22nd amendment

    22nd amendment
    prevents a president from serving more than two terms or more than ten years
  • 23rd amendment

    23rd amendment
    granted citizens living in Washington D.C., the nation's capital, the right to vote in presidential elections.
  • MLK "I have a dream"

    MLK "I have a dream"
    "I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister[2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis
    Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
  • JFK assassination

    JFK assassination
    The day president John F. Kennedy was killed
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment
    prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.
  • civil rights movement

    civil rights movement
    a nationwide movement for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and exclusion
  • 25th amendment

    25th amendment
    It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled.
  • MLK assassination

    MLK assassination
    The day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed
  • Fist ever man on the moon

    Fist ever man on the moon
    U.S became the first country to put a man on the moon.
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
  • Copy Rights Act

    Copy Rights Act
    protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.
  • The Cold War

    The Cold War
    rivalry between U.S and soviet union
  • 27th amendment

    27th amendment
    any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may only take effect after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    terrorists flying planes into the US twin towers
  • Obergefell v. Hodges Court case

    Obergefell v. Hodges Court case
    ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
  • The Blip

    The Blip
    Long battle with the titian Thanos who has all infinity stones. Battle ends with Thanos snapping away a half of the human population in the universe. The event has been named the blip.
  • Shibuya Incident

    Shibuya Incident
    The Shibuya Incident resulted in the release of at least ten million cursed spirits. All twenty-three wards of Tokyo were compromised and civilians were forced to evacuate.
  • The Finals

    The Finals
    Join THE FINALS, the world-famous, free-to-play, combat-centered game show! Fight alongside your teammates in virtual arenas
  • Blipped victims return.

    Blipped victims return.
    Efforts to return the blipped victims commence with the avengers (Bruce Banner) returning all previously blipped victims with a time travel heist. Another war with a time traveling Thanos ensues however this time the avengers win with tony stark using his life to save the world.
  • GTA 6

    GTA 6
    ITS HERE ITS FINALLY HERE
  • Detroit Become Human

    Detroit Become Human
    the city has been revitalized by the invention and introduction of Androids into everyday life. But when Androids start behaving as if they are alive, events begin to spin out of control.
  • Cyberpunk

    Cyberpunk
    Night City Changes Everybody.
  • spiderman

    spiderman
    Leader of the spider team that protects the spiderverse.
  • Fallout

    Fallout
    210 years after the Great War, a war between the United States and China over natural resources that ended in a nuclear holocaust in 2077.
  • Titian Wars Begin

    Titian Wars Begin
    a series of conflicts waged between the IMC and Frontier settlers around fifteen years before the Battle of Demeter.
  • Launch of the apex games

    Launch of the apex games
    a highly popular, televised blood sport that is owned by the mysterious Mercenary Syndicate and managed by their Apex Games Commission headed by Kuben Blisk.